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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1963
Page
4
A local wartime notice lists several service members and their assignments. Names include Rex Hancock, Ralph Babb, Richard Berger, Charles Moss, James Clark, and Charles Shane, with postings to ships, Marine divisions, and overseas duty in Germany and the Western Pacific. Places include Ottawa, Richmond, and Frankfort, with dates noting departures and training at Great Lakes and Memphis.
Leo A. McGraw, 52, files $2,536,000 damages suit in Miami charging R J Reynolds Tobacco Co with causing his lung cancer. He alleges ads claimed cigarettes were harmless while they were not. McGraw said he smoked three packs a day for 30 years and cancer led to partial lung removal in 1982.
AP reports 72 year old pensioner Mayray Mur ray paid his rent at Park Beach in Los Angeles. The note highlights the small daily ritual as a personal wealth and routine detail from a human interest fragment lingering in the chaotic report.
An AP analysis from Tokyo outlines a well organized coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem led by about nine top Viet Nam generals. The move aims to end Diem’s rule and Nhu’s influence, with potential military governance that could strengthen the anti Viet Cong war effort.
Washington notes compare Goldwater’s simple directness to Roosevelt and Kennedy, predicting pressure in state primaries and a need for more specific national solutions. The piece questions his ability to sustain warmth and define policy while weighing risks of intervention in Asia and potential war with Red China.
In Denver, Dr. Robert L. McDermott handed out over 100 juvenile-size toothbrushes to Halloween trick or treaters while giving out candy. The incident was reported by AP and published in the Ottawa Herald on November 2, 1963.
Wellsville Senior High School students elected two members from each class on October 30 for annual king and queen honors based on sales. Freshmen Penny Whitley and Roger O’Neil, sophomores Judy Crist and Mike Burrell, juniors Don Poole and Cheryl Rogers, and seniors Marilyn Shoemaker and Doug Mosher were named. Annual sales begin soon. A Cub Scouts Pack 3063 meeting October 24 at Wellsville Baptist Church featured Make Believe with Den 1 opening flag ceremony led by Den Mother Mrs. Glenn Willhite. Visitors included Kaw Council field director Jim Miller and district staff from Marais des Cygnes. Each den presented a skit. Attendance banner went to Den 5. Twenty-two scouts attended Camp Naish at Bonner Springs Oct. 26 for a two-day camp visitation. Older scouts served as guides, leading tours and showing trails. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hostetler returned from Sioux Falls, SD, visiting the new home of Stanley DeFries and friends at Sioux Falls College and First Baptist Church. Wellsville Baptist Church held a worknight Oct. 28 to ready Sunday School rooms for higher attendance. partitions, rearranged classrooms, and new blackboards were installed in several rooms. Claren Bailey Sr. of Ottawa, a former Wellsville resident, remains a patient in St. Joseph Hospital, Kansas City, in Room 508. The Herald offers weekly pay for best reader tip.
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